A little magic can take you a long way.
ROALD DAHLI think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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